Grain-binder



(No Model.)

` H. GUYER 8v L. F. KING.

GRAIN BINDER. No. 292,907. i Patented Feb. 5, 1884.

Unirse STATES PATENT Ormes.

HENRY GUYER AND LURANUS F. KING, OF IOLO, ILLINOIS.

GRAIN-BINDER.

SPECIFICATION formingrpart of Letters Patent No. 292,907, dated Felruary 5, 1884.

i Application filed February 24, 18:33. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY GUYER and LURANUS F. KING, citizens of the United States, residing at Polo, in the county of Ogle and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain-Binders; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or gures of ref erence marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a Vertical sectional view of our device. Fig. 2 is a top view, and Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view, of a part of the same. e

rIhis invention has relation to grain-binders; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the .claim appended.

The general organization of the apparatus made the subject-matter of this application being very similar to that of the selfbinder shown and described in Letters Patent` granted to John F. Appleby, February 1S, 1879, and num-` bered 212,420, we hereby merely make refer- `ence to said patent for an understanding of such portionsof the construction and so much of the operations ofthe present machine'as are substantially similar to those of said patented machine,directing the descriptive part of the present specication more particularly to eX- planations of the novel features of our improved machine. f

The objects of the improvements are to make a tighter bundle than heretofore and to facilitate the discharge of the bundle from the compressors after it has been bound.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the slotted inclined table or platform of the binder, b the drivingvshaft to which the binderarm c is secured, and d the cut-off attachment on the binderarm.

above this sleeve Aa short transverse shaft, g, has its bearingsin the binder-arm. On each The sleeve or hub c of the binder-arm cis secured to the shaft b, and immediately v side of the binder-arm c on the shaft `r/ are the friction-rollers h 7L. The binder-arm works in the slot 't'.

k designates a post on the inclined platform, to which the upper springcompressor, Z, is secured. This eompressorl consists of a wire bent in substantially the form' shown in the drawings.

m m designate the under compressor-barsone on each side of the binder-arm c-hinged or pivoted near the upper end of the slot i, and being curved, as shown, over the sleevee.

n designates the oscillating fingers, secured to the short transverse rod a', which is journaled in bearings near the lower end of the incline to stop and hold the grain in the throat ofthe binder until sufficient is received to form a gavel or bundle.

In operation, when the driveshaft is worked, the friction-rollers are carried upward with the binder-arm, come in contact with the arms of the under compressor, and carry the bundle up against the upper compressor as the binder-arm moves down, thereby tightly compressing the bundle and holding it until the knot has been tied. Then the friction-rollers have been Withdrawn by the reverse movement of the drive-shaft and binderarm, Vthe under compressor arms or bars will be dropped down into the slot i, thus enlarging the throat of the compressors and facilitating the discharge of the gavel. Consequently by l[his construction we are enabled to make a tighter bundle, and also greatly facilitate the discharge of the bundle after it has been formed.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.-

In agrain-binder of the character described, the combination of the binder-arm carrying the friction-rollers with the vpivoted compressor-arms m m, adapted to operate substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of y two witnesses. A

' HENRY GUYER.

LURANUS F. KING. Witnesses:

J. D. CAMPBELL, XV. E. DEA. 

